Sentences with phrase «signing over copyright»

They are not signing over copyright to the hybrid publisher.

This is a good move for Europe because researchers always need more funds and most of them HATE academic publishers and being forced to sign over their copyright to a paywall in exchange for nothing.

If you sign over the copyright of a piece of code, then under US copyright law you have essentially lost any authority over the code and any inherent right to use it.

Not exact matches

On a standard traditional publishing contract these days (in the States), you are signing over the rights in the contract for «the life of the copyright.»

My speed is better suited for traditional publishing, but the rights I'd have to give up, the term of copyright, the control over pricing, etc. make it hard to even consider signing another NY contract.

As bookshelves dwindle, and B&N appears on the verge of going the way of Border's, now would be a terrible time to take a work of art that lasts forever and sign it over to any publisher for term of copyright.

Just like any traditional publisher, when you sign a publishing contract with FFF Digital, you sign over certain rights so that we can legally distribute and sell the copyrighted work in your name.

Fanfiction writers are perceived by many to have no rights over their fanfic stories (although there is an argument for «fair use» (see this interview with Rebecca Tushnet, a legal advocate for the Organization for Transformative Works), and thus there is an assumption that they will leap at the chance to earn 35 % royalties, even if they sign away all rights beyond basic copyright.

The New York Law Journal has a report this week about developments in a proposed class action against a Manhattan dentist who required patients to sign a confidentiality agreement in which they promised not to publish negative commentary about her and to assign her a copyright over any such commentary.

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) submitted a petition to the U.S. Copyright Office today signed by more than 8200 people demanding that the office lift the legal cloud hanging over cell phone customers who modify their phones.